Pep So Shun-wah is very particular about his Hong Kong-style milk tea. He even learned how to make the steaming hot drink of black tea, evaporated milk and sugar in a cha chaan teng – a traditional Hong Kong cafe. The 38-year-old, who moved to Vancouver two years ago, had been told by his friends … Read more
In 2017 Lin Jie Kong, at the tail end of a road trip, stopped for food in the tiny Australian town of Karuah, New South Wales. She was expecting the usual pub fare – fish and chips or chicken Parmesan. Instead, she found a restaurant serving Australian-Chinese favourites such as sweet and sour pork, Mongolian … Read more
Most of the time, understanding dish names requires some level of fluency in Chinese, though not always. But what happens when names get lost in translation on their way to English? Chinese restaurant Chow in Glasgow, Scotland, has a colloquial phrase as a Chinese name that means “be there or be square”, or “see you … Read more
Several speciality brands have popped up recently. These three, based in the UK capital London, Vancouver in Canada, and Seattle in the United States, are making dumplings more accessible. Love Sum Dumplings, London Love Sum Dumpling’s multicultural product range, from Nepalese momos to Chinese shrimp dumplings. Photo: Love Sum Dumplings After she was named runner-up … Read more
After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, he moved to Amritsar and started a shoe business. Lim is a third-generation Chinese Indian; her grandfather moved from China when he was 13. Photo: Katherine Lim Today, Lim is known in India for her role in popularising Hakka cuisine, which is rich in pickled, cured … Read more
This Sunday, February 18, is the ninth day of the Chinese New Year, a day when many of us will frankly be quite sick of the festive cheer and rich foods. But for people from Fujian province and some of its neighbouring regions in China’s southeast, or those whose ancestries can be traced back to … Read more
Swift, efficient transport connections between Hong Kong’s various hinterlands are now taken for granted; air travel and high-speed railway networks link locations along the China coast – including both sides of the Taiwan Strait. But until the widespread advent of direct air services from Southeast Asia throughout the 1980s, relatively small-scale passenger vessel services enabled … Read more
